Patrizia Reggiani once said she'd rather cry in a Rolls (Royce) than be happy on a bicycle. She doesn't seem to have changed her mind.
Humans have rarely encountered an enemy as devastating as the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Between 1347 and 1351 it sparked the Black Death, an infection carried by fleas that spread rapidly across Europe, killing around 50 million people.
At Beijing's flagship Apple Store they switched off the company's famous icon at midday. It was a tribute to Steve Jobs the visionary who had created a truly global brand.